[GRASSweb-list]Contributors for GRASS Webpages

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Wed Aug 6 08:45:26 EDT 2003


On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:08:08PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:13:50AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> [...]
> > I think that the GRASS webpages have generally reached a good level.
> 
> I don't think so:
> 
> - new programmers cannot easily understand
>    - where to contribute
>    - how to warm up with GRASS programming
> - new users are confused how to install GRASS
> 
> This is not only my impression, but was reported to me from various
> people.

Without question there is a lot room for improvement.
The other point of my remark is, that you really did a good job
in improving the pages evolutionary.

> Also the main menu visible everywhere is needed.

Maybe not everywhere, but certainly the structure needs to
be more visible.


> We have
> find . -name '*.html' | wc -l
>    2115
> html pages without much site structure. Brrr.
> 
> Also 2115 web pages are too much to be maintained only
> by me.
> 
> Looking at other web sites
>  http://fink.sourceforge.net/
>  http://www.mozilla.org/
> etc
> show that a better overall structure is possible.
> 
>  
> [I have put this CVS log stats into the message as it is
>  posted to this mailing list in order to provoke an answer.
>  It worked perfectly :-)
> ]

You only got an answer from me,
I already but some time into helping to organise GRASS.
The ideas needs to be to get more people in the ring.
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